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bborudyesterday at 2:35 PM1 replyview on HN

This kind of reminds me of an old paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9912202

Of course, we are no longer in the clock speed doubling era, but computer does get faster still.


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convolvatronyesterday at 3:06 PM

It's true that the progress on clock speeds has slowed. Now we have to address the parallelism problem in order to keep moving forward. And we haven't done a very good job. Progress on that front will get us back on the acceleration curve. Saedfly, the current framing of 'who buys the most hardware', while I providing a nice marketing story, isn't netting us that much progress except what Nvidia spends internally.